NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investors.com. By Bill Wilson — Government interventionists insist the free market, if left unchecked, endangers individuals and our planet. According to their collectivist worldview, profits trump safety — while “corporate greed” overshadows the greater good and the right of everyone to receive their “fair share.” In their zeal to right these wrongs [...]
By Rick Manning – Elected officials in California, Connecticut, Maryland and New York have told the rest of America the truth about their vision for private ownership of firearms in America. They want to eliminate it. Only the most willfully blind believe that the politicians in these states would not have passed laws calling for the confiscation of firearms if [...]
By Craig Rucker — In his second inaugural address, President Obama pledged to address “the threat of climate change” because no one can avoid “the devastating impact of raging fires, crippling droughts and more powerful storms.” The President had said nothing about climate change during his reelection campaign –because that would have reminded millions of voters that he is committed [...]
Sen. Harry Reid has abandoned Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assualt weapons ban amendment to a gun control bill moving through the Senate. The reason? Reid could not find many people that supported it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he will not include a renewal of the federal assault weapons ban in a Senate gun control bill because it [...]
In this case, a picture speaks millions of words and over 20,000 pages of words! This is a comparison of the original ObamaCare bill against all of the government regulations that have been written because of it. (H/T Sen. McConnell’s press office)
By Bill Wilson – Barack Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And unless Senate Republicans mount a filibuster, she will undoubtedly be confirmed. McCarthy is really not an exceptional nominee. Not very different from prior EPA nominees. We have little doubt she or any other Obama nominee will continue [...]
By Adam Bitely — Obama has successfully rekindled the flames of the minimum wage debate by calling for the federal minimum wage to increase from $7.25 per hour of work to $9.00 per hour of work while indexing the minimum wage to inflation for every year thereafter during his State of the Union address. Obama argues that it will help [...]
By Paul Driessen — Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb in decades. Global sea ice is back to normal, Arctic ice is nearly normal, and the Antarctic icepack continues to grow. The rate of sea level rise remains what it was in 1900. And yet, President Obama [...]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at The Daily Caller. By Bill Wilson — Individuals enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces must swear an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But what happens when the only crime perpetrated by the “enemy” is supporting and defending the Constitution? Such [...]
A Democrat in the New York Assembly begged a Republican not to share a list of proposed (they ultimately were never brought to the floor) gun control laws that New York Democrats had hoped to adopt. Here is the exchange that happened in the NY Assembly: And here is the list of regulations that New York Democrats don’t want anyone [...]
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